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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Children under 14 Servants names Number of servants Bachelor servants One servant Two servants Three or more servants Duty
6 Sep 1789 Donald Gelles 2 2 £0.10.0
Mrs Gilles 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Greirson 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Smith Senr [Senior] 1 1 £0.2.6
John Ballintine 1 1 £0.5.0
The Rev [Reverend] Mr Bruce 1 1 £0.2.6
Alexander Richie 1 1 £0.2.6
William Hay 1 1 £0.2.6
John Smith Jr [Junior] 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Turnbull 1 1 £0.2.6
James Smith 2 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Gelles Sen [Senior] 2 2 £0.10.0
John Smith Jun [Junior] 1 1 £0.2.6
John Spence 1 1 £0.2.6
Capt [Captain] Mellison 2 1 1 £0.2.6
Miss J. Gardner 1 1 £0.2.6
4 18 1 13 4 £ 2.17.6

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[Page] 29
BRECHIN
A Survey of Rates & Duties FEMALE SERVANTS TAX. Arisen in Burgh of
Brichine for One Year from 5th Apr. [April] 1789 to 5 Apr. [April] 1790 By Daniel Ross Surveyor.

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1 Servt [Servant] for a Bachelor £0.5.0
13 Servt [Servant] for Married persons @ 2/6 [£0.2.6] £1.12.6
4 Servt [Servant] for Married persons @ 5/ [£0.5.0] £1.0.0
£2.17.6

I Daniel Ross Surveyor aforesaid Do Hereby certify That upon carefull Examination
I find the foregoing Tax Amot [Amount] to the sum of two pounds seventeen shillings &
Six Pence Stg [Sterling] And that upon the [blank] I delivered to Mr
[blank] Collr [Collector] of said Duties for the Brugh Aforesaid an Exact
Duplicate of this Acct [Account] which Contained My Oath that the prec-
=eeding Inhabitants were duly served with requisitions of the
foresaid Date and that they were to be charged conformably to their
Several returns to me or from the best Information I could
procure
At Dundee 22nd Jany [January] 1790 Daniel Ross Surveyor

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